Festive season on the small screens is not only in full swing but has entered its last December part and after numerous new holiday movies
The series is now airing over at Hallmark
Hallmark has launched their new festive series TWELVE DATES TILL CHRISTMAS last night, December 5th with our dearest Julian Morris in the cast next to acting legends Jane Seymour and Nathaniel Parker and dashing Toby Sandeman with Mae Withman in the lead role.
WHAT'S THE STORY?
Talented Saville Row textile pattern designer Kate
(Whitman) lives in the quaint village of Blexford, England, next door to
her father Mac (Parker), who is long divorced from Kate’s mother
Delilah (Mary McDonnell), a globe trotting American always on an adventure.
When not at work, Kate looks after Mac, who’s recovering from a
motorbike accident and is inclined to spend his days sitting in his
recliner. Unbeknownst to Kate, her best friend Laura (Lucy Eaton) signs her
up for The 12 Dates of Christmas – a holiday themed matchmaking program
in the days leading up to the holiday featuring carefully curated,
yuletide dating experiences, in an attempt to get Kate out of her rut.
Lovingly coerced by Laura and longtime best friend Callum (Morris), a
reluctant Kate ultimately gets into the spirit of the program and is
caught off guard when she meets someone (Sandeman) who reinvigorates her
zest for life. But when Delilah unexpectedly shows up on her doorstep –
literally – Kate and Mac’s life and holiday season get upended.
Meanwhile, Mac may be embarking on his own romance with local Evelyn (Seymour), a widow who slowly helps him step outside the confines of his
house and open his heart. As Kate wends her way through the 12 dates,
she takes a circuitous route to romance while also making some important
discoveries about herself.
Netflix is already preparing their festive romcoms for next year's holiday season and they have cast Jared Padalecki and Leighton Meester as leads in the new adaptation of THE BODYGUARD by Katherine Center. He will play a famous actor who hires a bodyguard to protect him from a stalker, but to keep his family from worrying, he has the bodyguard pretend to be his girlfriend. As the situation escalates, the facade wanes and the feelings between the two characters become increasingly real. Andie MacDowell, Walker Hayes, Noah LaLonde and Toby Sandeman also star.
Our dearest Robert Buckley plays Weatherman Ted Cooper who loves Christmas, but the past three have been terrible. This year, Ted has made up
Ted Cooper arrives this Christmas
his mind that things will be different – this will be the Christmas things turn around for him. But Ted’s relentless optimism is about to be put to the test as he is faced with a litany of injuries and obstacles when he travels back to his hometown of Lackawanna, NY for the holidays. Within hours of arriving at his sister Kate’s house, he finds himself making a trip to Urgent Care after falling off a ladder while hanging decorations. While there, he runs into Ruth Mittens, his former high school science teacher who was always his cheerleader. He also reconnects with the charming Hope Miller (Kimberley Sustad), except now she’s Dr. Hope Miller, with whom he went to high school and quietly crushed on from afar. Ted is optimistic that this budding romance is the beginning of his Christmas comeback, but his looming holiday bad luck still has a few curveballs in store for him. The film is out October 25th.
THREE WISEST MEN
The
third part of Hallmark's most popular Christmas movie series ever THREE
WISEST MEN arrives November 15th with our dearest boys Andrew Walker,
Tyler Hynes and Paul Campbell returning as three delightful brothers. In
the third “Wise Men” movie, Luke (Walker) is expecting twins, Taylor
(Hynes) is debating a life-changing job, and Stephan (Campbell) is
planning for a wedding — all while their mom is planning to put the
family home up for sale.
A ROYAL MONTANA CHRISTMAS
Out October 18th it follows Princess Victoria of Zelarnia (Fiona Gubelmann) who, overwhelmed by her royal duties during the Christmas season, is ready for a change of pace. Looking to decompress in the days
A Royal Montana Christmas is out October
leading up to Christmas, she decides to take a vacation to Peaceful Pines Ranch in Montana where she celebrated Christmas as a child with her late father. Upon arrival, she meets her dashing guide Huntley Blaylock (Warren Christie) who presents her and the other guests at the ranch with a rustic experience that is far from the royal treatment. This Christmas, Huntley must decide if he wants to step into a leadership role and carry on the family ranch’s legacy as his parents, the owners, approach retirement. Unaware of her status as a princess, Huntley puts Victoria through the rigors of a Montana ranch experience. Victoria also plans to help Huntley revive the ranch’s Christmas Holly-Day Dance. Victoria finds herself charmed by both Huntley and this different pace of life. As the two start to fall for each other, things get complicated when Huntley discovers Victoria is a princess. As Christmas approaches and her time at the ranch comes to an end, Victoria must decide if she should return to her royal life or stay in Montana with Huntley and the ranch she has grown so fond of.
A KELLER CHRISTMAS VACATION
Out
November 9th, it stars Jonathan Bennett, Brandon Routh, Eden Sher as
the Keller family, who, including the parents and their three adult
children, decide to take a European river cruise touring the Christmas
Markets over the holidays, and each sibling is going through their own
life challenge.
HOLIDAY TOUCHDOWN: BILLS LOVE STORY
Holiday Touchdown is out November
Out November 22nd this one stars Holland Roden and Matthew Daddario with cameos from numerous real life sports stars. Although pediatric doctor Morgan Quinn and the Bills’ VP of Stadium Development Gabe DeLuca have been lifelong friends — as have their families — he’s always wanted to be more. This holiday and football season, the pair work together to find out the mystery person who helped her family get by after her uncle was drafted decades before.
CHRISTMAS AT THE CATNIP CAFE
Out
November 30th with Erin Cahill and Paul Campbell. When a marketing
executive learns she’s short on the down payment for her dream condo,
she’s informed that her great aunt left her half of a cat café in
upstate New York. Hoping to sell it before the holidays, she then meets
Dr. Ben Kane, the veterinarian who owns the other half, and has no
intention of closing.
MELT MY HEART THIS CHRISTMAS
Out November 23rd! Holly James (Laura Vandervoort), a passionate glassblower striving to establish her artistic identity, dreams of showcasing her creations at the Fern Grove Fair. Despite previous rejections from Jack
Melt My Heart is out November
Dubois (Stephen Huszar), who oversees the entries, Holly finds an unexpected opportunity to assist legendary glassblower Bianca Bonhomme, to help Jack. Unfortunately, Bianca is struggling with a creative slump and needs help managing her booth. While Holly assists Bianca, she also secretly displays her own art under a pseudonym and her vibrant work becomes a surprise hit, overshadowing Bianca’s work and challenging the fair’s traditional norms. Holly does everything she can to help Bianca without giving away her identity while also growing closer to Jack, but unfortunately Walter, a news reporter, discovers the mystery and outs Holly, shattering her relationship with both Bianca and Jack. Holly is now forced to pick up the pieces and try to melt them back together.
CHRISTMAS ABOVE THE CLOUDS
Out
Saturday, November 8 it stars Erin Krakow and Tyler Hynes with her
playing a workaholic CEO who tries to skip Christmas but is haunted by
her past, present and future, and forced to confront the choices — and
her ex.
TWELVE DATES TILL CHRISTMAS
Out December 5th, it is a festive TV series not a film based on Jenni Bayliss’ book, starring Mae Whitman, Lucy Eaton, Mary McDonnell, Jane Seymour. Our dear boys Julian Morris, Toby Sandeman, Nathaniel Parker, take the male roles. The six-episode series follows a woman who, after being signed up for a Christmas-themed dating service, experiences 12 holiday dates designed to find her love.
Netflix is trying it seems to create their own Ted Lasso style series and their latest effort in that field is new comedy series RUNNING POINT set in the world of basketball with Kate Hudson in the lead role. The ten episodes that will be available for streaming February 27th also have Brenda Song, Drew Tarver, Scott MacArthur, Fabrizio Guido, Toby Sandeman, and two insanely hot hunks Chet Hanks and Jay Ellis in the cast. You can check out the brand new trailer for the upcoming comedy series below and tell us what you think, will you be watching?
WHAT'S THE STORY?
When a scandal forces her brother to resign, Isla Gordon (Kate Hudson)
is appointed president of the Los Angeles Waves, one of the most storied
professional basketball franchises, and her family business. Ambitious
and often overlooked, Isla will have to prove to her skeptical brothers,
the board, and the larger sports community that she was the right
choice for the job. Max Greenfield and Justin Theroux are some of the
names that will guest star in some of the episodes.
NURGUL YESILCAY TO REPLACE BEREN SAAT AT THE THRONE?
Television news for you this Sunday, starting with the royal gossips coming from Istanbul's Topkapi palace which say that Beren Saat could be replaced in the second season of the worldwide hit saga KOSEM SULTANA by Turkey's best paid TV star Nurgül Yeşilçay! I must admit I'd welcome the replacement given how much the audience was dissatisfied with Beren's lack of any interest in giving some depth or personality to her portrayal of the 17th century sultana Kosem who ruled Ottoman Empire through her husband and later on her sons. With her shocking lack of expression and acting chops Beren has really taken for granted the role which most actresses would consider an acting playground and a role of a lifetime. It is interesting that the second season will have an unprecedented full cast change, since all of the characters have been killed in the first one or have grown up and will be played by older stars. Caner Cindoruk, Burak Yamantürk, Metin Akdülger, Farah Zeynep Abdullah, Naz Elmas are just some of the stars I've heard could play Kosem's grown up princes and princesses and courtiers in the new season which should return this Autumn.
TOBY SANDEMAN IS
MOROCCAN PRINCE IN 'ROYALS' Speaking of royal courts, E!'s first scripted series ever which has set
December 4th for the return in its third season, THE ROYALS has just
cast Toby Sandeman as a Moroccan prince! Sebastian is described as
being articulate and cerebral and has fully embraced everything that
comes with being a contemporary royal including the scrutiny and
attention it brings. He joins Elizabeth Hurley, Tom Austin and William
Moseley in the popular drama. NBC BUYS 'THE ARK' SF DRAMA Meanwhile, NBC has bought
a high concept sf drama THE ARK a modern retelling of the
Noah’s Ark story from the Bible, following an engineer who, after the
death of his wife, has a vision to construct a ship capable of
sustaining life in space. When the build happens to coincide with the
coming end of the world, the engineer realizes there may be a larger
story at play. BBC TO TURN 'THE MINIATURIST' INTO MINI SERIES Across the pond, British
national broadcaster BBC has announced that they're making a new period
set series. They will adapt Jessie Burton's THE MINIATURIST into a three
part series! The 2014 bestseller is set in 1686 with the story
revolving around eighteen year old Nella Oortman, who arrives in
Amsterdam to become the wife of wealthy merchant Johannes Brandt.
She receives a wedding gift of a doll's house from a mysterious
Miniaturist, which she soon realises is mirroring the situation in her
house, and predicting the future in unnerving ways.
work, Kate looks after Mac, who’s recovering from a
motorbike accident and is inclined to spend his days sitting in his
recliner. Unbeknownst to Kate, her best friend Laura (Lucy Eaton) signs her
up for The 12 Dates of Christmas – a holiday themed matchmaking program
in the days leading up to the holiday
featuring carefully curated,
yuletide dating experiences, in an attempt to get Kate out of her rut.
Lovingly coerced by Laura and longtime best friend Callum (Morris), a
reluctant Kate ultimately gets into the spirit of the program and is
caught off guard when she meets someone (Sandeman) who
reinvigorates her
zest for life. But when Delilah unexpectedly shows up on her doorstep –
literally – Kate and Mac’s life and holiday season get upended.
Meanwhile, Mac may be embarking on his own romance with local Evelyn
(Seymour), a widow who slowly helps him step outside the confines of his
house and open his heart. As Kate wends her way through the 12 dates,
she takes a circuitous route to romance while also making some important
discoveries about herself. 
work, Kate looks after Mac, who’s recovering from a
motorbike accident and is inclined to spend his days sitting in his
recliner. Unbeknownst to Kate, her best friend Laura (Lucy Eaton) signs her
up for The 12 Dates of Christmas – a holiday themed matchmaking program
in the days leading up to the holiday
featuring carefully curated,
yuletide dating experiences, in an attempt to get Kate out of her rut.
Lovingly coerced by Laura and longtime best friend Callum (Morris), a
reluctant Kate ultimately gets into the spirit of the program and is
caught off guard when she meets someone (Sandeman) who
reinvigorates her
zest for life. But when Delilah unexpectedly shows up on her doorstep –
literally – Kate and Mac’s life and holiday season get upended.
Meanwhile, Mac may be embarking on his own romance with local Evelyn
(Seymour), a widow who slowly helps him step outside the confines of his
house and open his heart. As Kate wends her way through the 12 dates,
she takes a circuitous route to romance while also making some important
discoveries about herself. 
